Re:The End of the Internet Dream
by spython on Monday November 23, 2015 @03:29AM
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It is great fun, when any previous authority is replaced by the logic of the market. What thrives, they say, deserves to thrive, what fails, deserves to fail.
Their argument is, if people really wanted a better world, they would have it already.
Which is of course foolish, the market doesn't care about good or evil.
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"The market" is people. You just said that people don't care about good or evil. I submit that this is an exaggeration.
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is a process whereby larger entities, patterns, and regularities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities that themselves do not exhibit such properties.
The market is not people, nor was it ever about people. It is about money and capital, and capital is not governed by moral principles.
Re:The End of the Internet Dream
by eevilspock on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:30AM
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Oh the market is about people when it commoditizes them, and that just makes the consequences even less moral.